SkippyBing wrote:
The figures for the F-15 and Typhoon sound plausible, but again it's unlikely they'd ever be operated like that as you'd be better off hanging some more fuel and stores on the thing so it'd do something useful once it got airborne. The Tornado one does sound more like an aircraft with a warload however, bearing in mind it hasn't got the punchiest engines going.
Edited to add at max tax off weight the F-15 gets a TWR of around 0.8.
High TWR is obviously useful for more than VTOL ops - but then this has started making me think about how Drag will affect that aspect of TWR :roll:
which of course is not so much of an issue when doing a brute-force lift off the deck/hang in the air... :think:
Wondering if this is needing to go onto a new thread anyone.....?
Thinking out aloud again, I wonder if a graph of some sort could be made up giving TWR performance to altitude? (I'm thinking lines from the ground up showing what angle a TWR gives to move a given load at a given speed to a given altitude?) - Unless I am totally wrong (which is not uncommon) this should show up just like a graph?
